(Boogiepost Recordings)

If this record had come out 10 years ago, no reviewer would’ve been able to avoid riffing about “soundtracks to movies that don’t exist yet”, the band almost asks for it with that album title – but wait, I’ve already berated this band for their way of presenting themselves with their first album (reviewed here), and this one’s more in style.

I liked this Swedish-Danish avantgarderock quintet’s debut, even if I can’t say I’ve been listening to it a lot – OK, at all, then – since reviewing it, and “Kinescope Mountain” is no less an interesting album. Interesting, hell it’s an intriguing album: All spooky sounds, tape loops, atonal sax and clarinet, guitar noise.

In that regard it reminds me of Dane TS Hawk’s “Bøh!” album, which was intended to be the soundtrack to an old Nordic horror story, or Barry Adamson’s early work, depicting the grim, failed society of 80’s England. The overall vibes here are much more tranquil and laidback though, and the album is more listenable than those mentioned – but then, that also means that it tends to glide into the background, if only to demand your attention again on a song like track 8 (I’ve no idea which song’s which, since the tracklisting doesn’t match the number of tracks on the CD).

For avant-garde, this isn’t testing neither your nerves, nor new ground; for experimental jazzrock, it’s a bit weird, if not uncommon – but for an hour-long break from all the other crap you fill your ears with, this is a good, little record.

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If you dig: Dane TS Hawk, early Barry Adamson, Barry Black